“It is the fourth case”. What happens to the batteries

For heaven’s sake, even petrol cars catch fire as well as buses in Rome. However, millions of internal combustion engines are running around the world, while there is a small and well-paid number of electric cars for now. In view of the “green revolution” imposed by the EU, which will force car manufacturers to say goodbye to the internal combustion engine by 2035, therefore, we cannot fail to report what happened in these hours in Florida. Where one Jaguar I-Pace it caught fire out of nowhere after being reloaded.

The news was reported by the American specialized portal, Electrek. Basically, Mr. Gonzalo Salazar bought this electric car in 2019. Until June 2022 no problem, then the patatrac happens: “On June 16 I connected the car before going to bed – he wrote in an email to Electrek – On the morning of June 17 I woke up and I unplugged the machine. Later that morning, I decided to run some errands. That morning I drove about 12 miles before returning home and parking the car in the garage, leaving the garage door open. While I was doing things at homeI heard bangs coming from the garage. I decided to go and see where the sounds were coming from and, entering the garage, I found myself faced with a thick wall of smoke. My thought was immediately: ‘When there is smoke there is fire’ and I need to get the car out of the garage at home ”.

On the public driveway the car first caught fire, then there were other explosions and the beautiful Jaguar “was quickly engulfed in flames“. Only the intervention of the firefighters, complete with fireproof foam, allowed the fire to be put out. “There was debris flying everywhere – Salazar said – so I kept my distance. After the firefighters poured the foam for a long time, the car was still humming from the front of the car ”.

This would not be an isolated case. Electrek explains that this is the fourth known incident of this type of I-Pace battery, “Which is starting to be significant considering the relatively small number of units on the roads.” To these must be added the 17 known fires of another battery, the Bolt EV. The portal notes that for now the statistics of electric and petrol-engine fires are not very different. The problem, however, is not when the car catches fire after a car accident. But if it does “when the electric vehicle’s battery pack catches fire on its own without external factors.” As it seems to have happened in this case.

Another EV fire… this one from Florida earlier this summer. A Jaguar i-pace was parked in an attached garage when the owner heard “popping” sounds and saw smoke puffing from the car. The car was moved outside before it burst into flames. I guess you can call them “lucky”. pic.twitter.com/JUOwthCSb4

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